Hair-ironing comb.



E. H. TAYLOR.

HAIR IRONING 00MB.

APPLICATION FILED 41116.29, 1910.

Patented Sept. 12, 1911.

Guam,

COLUIIIA PLANMRAPN C0,,WASHINOTON D C EDWARD HIRAM TAYLOR, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

HAIR-IRONING COMB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12, 1911.

Application filed August 29, 1910. Serial No. 579,420.

To all whom it may concernf Be it known that I, EDWARD H.- TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hair-Ironing Combs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for straightening hair by pressing it between heated ironing surfaces.

While particularly designed for the purpose of straightening hair, my invention is also adapted by a slight change in construction, to be used to curl the hair.

The principal difficulty in straightening hair, particularly when closely curled, lies in the fact that such hair is usually short and it must be brought into contact with heated surfaces and pressed against or between such surfaces. According to my present invention, the hair, after being separated by a comb, passes between heated ironing surfaces or teeth arranged in two sets which are relatively movable so that the teeth of one set can be forced against the teeth of the other set with which they alternate, to press and iron the hair, as it is drawn between them. These teeth are given fiat contacting surfaces when it is desired to straighten the hair and are given grooved or waved contacting surfaces when it is desired to use the device as a means for curling hair. The comb and ironing teeth are preferably mounted on a metal base to which a suitable handle is attached and which is of such a character as to retain and radiate the heat to the ironing teeth. If desired other means may be employed to heat the teeth.

My invention comprises the details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the comb complete with the outer casing broken away. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the slide carrying the movable ironing teeth. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the frame carrying the fixed ironing teeth. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross sectional View of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view showing a modified construction of the ironing teeth as designed for curling hair.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

According to the preferred embodiment of my invention, I provide a handle 1 having a metal shank 2 which is threaded and screwed into one end of a metal block 3, which is elongated and substantially rectangular in cross section. This block 3 is longitudinally channeled to provide the spaced parallel side walls 4: which terminate at ofiset shoulders 5 between which is formed a bottom groove 6. A metallic comb is attached to one side of the block 3 by screws or rivets 7 which pass through its base 8. The comb teeth 9 are formed integral. with the base 8 and project above the upper surface of the block 3. A slide 10, carrying a series of ironing members or teeth 11, rests upon the shoulders 5 and is provided with a longitudinal tongue 12 which works in the groove 6. The groove and tongue may be dispensed with if desired and the slide left with a fiat bottom surface which rests upon the bottom of the channel. The slide 10 is longer than the block 3 and is provided at its free end adjacent to the handle, with a pin or stud 13 to which a link 14 is pivotally connected, the outer end of the link being pivotally connected to a pin 15 mounted at one end of a lever 16 which near its center is pivoted upon a pin 17 fastened to the handle 1. This lever 16 has a handle 18 which is arranged so as to be grasped by the fingers of the hand while holding the handle 1, and to be drawn toward that handle when it is desired to operate the slide 10. A spring 19 engages the outer end of the lever 16 near the pin 15 and urges the slide toward the handle. This spring, after being coiled about the pin 17 under the handle 18, is fastened at its outer end 20 to the handle 1 preferably by having that end bent inwardly and inserted in a small hole bored into the handle to receive it.

A fixed frame 21 is secured by set screws 22 in the upper end of the channel, as shown in Fig. 1. This frame is provided with a series of ironing teeth 23, similar to teeth 11. These teeth 23 are set at intervals across a longitudinal groove 24 in the frame. The teeth 11, as shown in Fig. 1, project up through this groove 24 and extend to a point level with the tops of the teeth 23 and alternate with them.

In operation, the device is heated in any suitable manner, either by inserting block 3 in a heating flame or an electric heater, or by having any standard form of heater attached, the same not being shown as it forms nopart of my present invention. After being thus heated, the deviceis inverted'f-rom the position shown in Fig. 1, and the teeth 9 of the comb are first drawn through the hair to be treated to separate the same and guide it between the pairs'of teeth 11 and 23 which stand normally in pairs as shown in said figure. handle 18 is drawn inwardly toward the handle'l and the slide 10 forced inwardly so that its several teethll shift to the left e from the 'po'sitionshown; in F ig. I and press :3- provided with a longitudinal slot through which the teeth 11 and 23 project.-

To minimize the amount of heat that'will be radiated to the teeth -9 of the comb, I provide a'longitudinalchannel or groove 26 in i the side wallof the block 3 opposite the point where the screws 7 base 8 of the 'comb.

When it is desiredto use the device as a meansforcurl'inghair, I make the teeth as pass through the shown in Fig. 5, giving them a wider i'roning or heating surface and making them grooved-or wave-din cross sectionso that, when the hair-ispressed between such heated surfaces, it will -bewaved or curled.

: Having thus described my invention, what I claimas new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is J 1. In a deviceof the character described, a heat ng bl'ock, fixed ironing teeth carried by said block, a slide mounted on said block and carrying ironing teeth which alternate with saidfixed teeth, and means to force said sets ofteethtogether, substantially as described.

2. In device of the character described, the combination with a comb and a heat radiating member, of two sets of alining ironing members, the men'ibers of each set being mounted on said heatradiating member-and'being alternately placed andrelatively movable; on said member to engage with and be disengaged from 'each other, substantially as and for the purposes described. Y I

3-. In a device of the character described,

" a heatradiatin g member, a handle therefor,

a set of; fixed ironing teeth detach ably mounted insaid member, a-slide carryingmovable lronlng teeth'wh l'c'h alternate with- When this has been done the" the fixed teeth, and means to move said slide to press the side face of each movable tooth against the'adjacent side face of a fixed on said slide projecting above the open channel in the block, a frame fixed in the channel in said block above said slide, said frame having openings through which the teeth on the slide project, ironing teeth on said frame arranged so as to alternate with the slide teeth with which theycooperate, and means attached to the handle for actuating said slide to press said cooperating teeth together, substantially as described.

In a device of the character described, the combination with the block of two sets of cooperating ironing teeth, one set alternating with and being movable relatively to the other, and-a comb for guiding the hair between said ironing teeth, said comb having ametal base which is connected to said device at one side, said block being grooved "longitudinally opposite the point of attachment of said base of the comb, as and for the purposes described.

6. In a device of the character described, the'combination of a metal block, a handle connected to said block, two sets of ironing teeth mounted on said block, the one set of teeth being fixed to the block, a support for the other set of teeth which is movably mounted on said block, a casing surrounding the block and tooth support, actuating means to adjust said movable support, and a comb attached to the side of the casing, substantially as described.

7. In a device of the character described, a metal block, aset of fixed ironing teeth carried'by said block, a slide and a set of ironing teeth carried thereby which cooperate wit-h said fixed teeth with which they alternate, a link pivotally connected to said slide, a handle for the device, a lever pivoted to said handle and connected at one end to said link, and spring means engaging said lever and tending to urge same away from said handle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses. M g

EDWARD HIRAM TAYLOR. Witnesses WALTER S. DILLON, CHAS. S. BOWEN.

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